We offer mental health, wellbeing and recovery services to those needing support in County Durham. The type of support available will include the following:
The Durham Mental Wellbeing Alliance services are unable to support with Medication reviews, Secondary Services, Occupational health, Crisis support, emergency housing, domiciliary care needs, support needs requiring interventions from a social care provider or transport. We can offer advice/signposting where possible.
Services provide support around low level/low need mental health and wellbeing and are not mental health professionals.
Supported Accommodation
Supporting people to reach their full potential and take control over their own lives to enable them in their recovery, lessening the impact of mental health issues to live independently.
Physical Activities
Promoting health and wellbeing through participation in physical activity. This can be walking, gardening, swimming and bike riding. All activities are devised in coproduction with our service users.
Support with Employment
Employment support to enable retention of employment for people struggling with their mental health, support to look into volunteering opportunities and finding vocational training, delivered on a 1-1 basis or in small groups.
Befriending
One-to-one and peer support to reduce isolation and support links to activities within the community. To increase confidence and build self-esteem, mental health and health support needs. This is recovery focused goals to help individuals become independent, this would not be a check in service, it is a more practical approach to reaching recovery goals that is provided by a volunteer who has lived experiences. This is a low level support need service.
Vocational & Educational Activities
Training and Educational Programmes: A variety of courses provided in community venues or provider subcontractor buildings. Courses range from leisure, vocational, credited and non-accredited.
Mental Health Hospital Discharge Service
The service is available to any Co Durham resident who is an inpatient on acute mental health, PICU or rehab wards in Lanchester Road Hospital and West Park Hospital. The team support patients and the wards to ensure timely bed flow and prevent bed blocking. The support offered is to obtain and maintain accommodation, money management/maximising income, social inclusion in their local communities. During their stay in hospital and following discharge, the team work closely with the ward staff and other supporting agencies to promote social and mental wellbeing with a view to prevent readmission to hospital.
Suicide Postvention Support
Person centred, practical and emotional one-to-one support for those bereaved or affected by suicide (face to face in community venues and home visits/ virtual, dependent on needs).
Peer Support
Group based support services for service users, using their own experiences to help each other.
Drop-in Service
Group support offered across County Durham in a variety of local community venues or provider buildings. Groups offer courses and activities that reduce social isolation, promote wellbeing and encourage participation.
Relationship Support
Counselling for adult relationships (couples), adult individual Service Users, families, children, and young people. Support including but not limited to, Psychosexual Therapy, Reducing Parental Conflict interventions, Mentalisation, Parenting When Separated.
Bereavement
Bereavement support via specialist trained bereavement volunteers. The Service includes, but is not limited to advice, support, information and leaflets as well as telephone/zoom support, face-to-face support (where possible) and drop in dependent on Service User’s needs.
Women Only Activities
Welcoming safe space to learn, socialise and gain confidence. Courses, support and wellbeing services both online and from a women-only centre.
Floating support (in the community)
Floating Support: Providing structured and outcome focused support, with person centred goals developed with each individual on a one-to-one basis. Including help to manage mental health conditions and develop techniques to support recovery, and support to attend appointments. Providing guidance and emotional support, promoting confidence and improved self-esteem.
Groups and activities
Health & wellbeing activities
We run a wide range of activities such as woodwork, joinery, arts and crafts, and gardening in social group environments that provide people with a space to be around others who might understand what they’re going through, while learning a wide range of new skills.
Lost someone to suicide?
This service is provided by professionals who have personal experience with suicide, offering a safe environment in which to discuss your bereavement. We can’t take away pain, anger or sorrow. However, we can share our own experiences of losing a loved one to suicide.
Music Session
Our music groups offer the opportunity to play music with other people, make new friends and learn from scratch how to play an instrument.
What is co-production?
Co-production is an equal relationship between people who use the services and the people responsible for the services.
